Grace, The Matriarch

About the Book

About the Author

Noël E. Franklin is published in the International Library of Poetry’s Anthology, Shades of Autumn, 1999, and was presented the Editor’s Choice Award for her work. She was awarded the Army Achievement Medal by the Department of the Army for “exceptionally meritorious achievement…” She is currently working on a fiction novel titled Grace, The Matriarch. Using the marvelous framework of her wealthy paternal grandmother’s life, she tells the story of a tremendous tuberculosis scourge and a romance that was not an ordinary love.